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The National Virtual Climate Laboratory (NVCL) is a comprehensive web portal featuring climate science projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. The portal can be used to find a wide range of national laboratory experts, programs, projects, activities and user facilities engaged in climate research across the BER portfolio. New features include climate jobs and internships at DOE and DOE’s participating laboratories are highlighted.
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2 years ago Read more at Argonne National Laboratory

Headwaters Science Institute has announced a slate of summer camp opportunities for Summer 2024. We engage students’ natural curiosity, guiding them to design and perform experiments that answer their own questions through the scientific method. This summer we are hosting day camps in Kirkwood, Serene Lakes and Truckee, and overnight camps at Webber Lake and Camp Wamp.
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We caught up with three authors of the Fifth National Climate Assessment to hear how social science when combined with physical science can help our nation find and put to work solutions to the climate crisis with equity and effectiveness. This oil painting, entitled Shelton Johnson Calls, was painted by Amuri Morris, and is part of the fifth national Climate Assessment Art x Climate Gallery. The piece depicts National Park Ranger shelton Johnson playing an instrument welcoming children to the natural world.
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies. The results could lead to enhancements in security technology and aid the development of quantum sensors. This discovery could pave the way for widespread deployment of cheap, reliable and accurate sensors for a wide variety of uses.
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the European Cancer Patient’s Bill of Rights, which we launched in the European Parliament on World Cancer Day 2014. It includes over 170 data measurements across 34 European countries, capturing various data sources. The European Cancer Pulse: Providing the evidence base for cancer inequalities across Europe.
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2 years ago Read more at Open Access Government

Three centuries-old brick tombs discovered in northeastern China may hold the remains of a non-Chinese people that ruled the region nearly a millennium ago. The tombs, located in the city of Changzhi in Shanxi province, are from the Jurchen Jin dynasty, which ruled in northern China between 1115 and 1234. At some point, the tombs had been damaged by looting, but all three were relatively well preserved and included painted murals
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

This figure illustrating greenhouse gas emissions and pathways to mitigation presents too much data, according to survey participants. Creating multiple figures focused on each set of data was one solution suggested by a participant.
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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert

Mikayla Carlson '23 and Mackenzie Farrell ’23 explored sound in a completely different way as musicians in the renowned St. Olaf Band. As members of the Lee Lab, their research focused on how the acoustic parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea can recognize and locate the calling songs of its host, the field cricket.
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2 years ago Read more at St. Olaf College News

Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) get around this by altering the shape of their melons to communicate with other whales. These protrusions are composed of fatty tissue and are known to amplify auditory signals that are key to the whales' social interactions. The researchers identified five different types of melon shape — flat, lift, press, push and shake.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

A researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology is exploring ways to improve their durability by isolating when material failures begin. By exploring the point at which fiber composite materials begin to deteriorate and how the environment affects material, Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans believes there is a way to ensure longer-term reliability. She’ll use computer modeling to investigate how fiber bundles behave.
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2 years ago Read more at Rochester Institute of Technology